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    <div class="refentry" id="glGetBufferPointerv">
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        <h2>Name</h2>
        <p>glGetBufferPointerv — return the pointer to a mapped buffer object's data store</p>
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        <h2>C Specification</h2>
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                <code class="funcdef">void <strong class="fsfunc">glGetBufferPointerv</strong>(</code>
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              <td>GLenum <var class="pdparam">target</var>, </td>
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              <td> </td>
              <td>GLenum <var class="pdparam">pname</var>, </td>
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              <td> </td>
              <td>GLvoid ** <var class="pdparam">params</var><code>)</code>;</td>
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        <h2>Parameters</h2>
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                <em class="parameter">
                  <code>target</code>
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                    Specifies the target buffer object.
                    The symbolic constant must be <code class="constant">GL_ARRAY_BUFFER</code>,
                    <code class="constant">GL_COPY_READ_BUFFER</code>,
                    <code class="constant">GL_COPY_WRITE_BUFFER</code>,
                    <code class="constant">GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER</code>,
                    <code class="constant">GL_PIXEL_PACK_BUFFER</code>,
                    <code class="constant">GL_PIXEL_UNPACK_BUFFER</code>,
                    <code class="constant">GL_TRANSFORM_FEEDBACK_BUFFER</code>, or
                    <code class="constant">GL_UNIFORM_BUFFER</code>.
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                <em class="parameter">
                  <code>pname</code>
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                    Specifies the pointer to be returned.  The symbolic constant must be <code class="constant">GL_BUFFER_MAP_POINTER</code>.
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                  <code>params</code>
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                    Returns the pointer value specified by <em class="parameter"><code>pname</code></em>.
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        <h2>Description</h2>
        <p>
            <code class="function">glGetBufferPointerv</code> returns pointer information. <em class="parameter"><code>pname</code></em> is a symbolic constant
            indicating the pointer to be returned, which must be <code class="constant">GL_BUFFER_MAP_POINTER</code>, the pointer
            to which the buffer object's data store is mapped.  If the data store is not currently mapped, <code class="constant">NULL</code> is returned.
            <em class="parameter"><code>params</code></em> is a pointer to a location in which to place the returned pointer value.
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        <h2>Notes</h2>
        <p>
            If an error is generated,
            no change is made to the contents of <em class="parameter"><code>params</code></em>.
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            The initial value for the pointer is <code class="constant">NULL</code>.
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        <h2>Errors</h2>
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            <code class="constant">GL_INVALID_ENUM</code> is generated if <em class="parameter"><code>target</code></em> or <em class="parameter"><code>pname</code></em> is not an
            accepted value.
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            <code class="constant">GL_INVALID_OPERATION</code> is generated if the reserved buffer object name 0 is bound to <em class="parameter"><code>target</code></em>.
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      <div class="refsect1" id="seealso">
        <h2>See Also</h2>
        <p>
            <a class="citerefentry" href="glBindBuffer.xhtml"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glBindBuffer</span></span></a>,
            <a class="citerefentry" href="glMapBufferRange.xhtml"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">glMapBufferRange</span></span></a>
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